Andrew Callaghan
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8 recordings
6 series
first heard Apr 2024
last heard 22 Jun
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But at the time, certainly for the five, six-year period after, it was like every day was like a nightmare because I'm like, when is it going to go away?
Trying everything I could to make it go away, all these experimental tools and different medicines online they said worked.
I would have been susceptible to like any kind of new age medical misinfo at that time.
But thankfully that hadn't fully formed like it had today, that industry, information economy.
But yeah, definitely alcohol.
That's why I started drinking so much as a young person because that was what helped the most.
Okay.
Around 15, just, you know, stopped smoking weed and just would drink after school.
Especially because any attempt to suppress information or censor information allows that person to take on a sort of David and Goliath attitude, which, judo effect, makes their information spread twice as far.
I tend to think that we're doomed in the short term.
and that our future generations will have to learn from the mistakes of the previous ones.
But we, and me specifically, are also the first generation to grow up totally inundated by digital media.
We are the alpha generation, the test generation for what it's like to have someone spend their whole life with digital devices, phones, computers, et cetera.
So I think that if you consider that every generation for the next 500 or 5,000 will also have access to the same tools, the mistakes that we've made as a generation, Gen Z,
And I mean, everything that comes after it, Gen Alpha is probably going to be even worse, will inform the way future generations interact with technology.
Maybe it'll be something like Siesta in Spain, where it's not enforced necessarily by the boot of the authority figure, but it's just a social thing.
Like, okay, it's after 5 p.m.
Totally.
Social type of enforcement.
But also, I have a theory that when – so Gen Alpha, which is the current 15-year-olds, 16-year-olds, supposedly have the lowest literacy rate.
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